On Dec 12, 2006, at 12:23 AM, Phil Hendry wrote:
Hmm - just done a Spotlight search for GTK, graphics toolkit and anything else like that that I can think of. The only results that come up are these mail messages...
I wonder what else it might be called on a Mac? I'll ask the on-line MUG I belong to.
Hi Phil,
Aside from being a developer on a dual G5 Mac, I also happen to have been involved in trying to get Inkscape to respect the GTK sizes more.
GTK is the widget toolkit we use for the UI. Among other things, GTK is themeable. You can drop in new themes and have it change the look and feel of the programs using it, usually on the fly.
Anyway, one spot my builds of Inkscape looks (I've been running my own builds not the packaged one) is the file named ".gtkrc-2.0" in my home directory. Notice that it starts with a dot, as on most Unix systems that causes the file to be hidden.
Within that I have a few settings for playing with icon sizes, but other settings are configurable. Just relaunch Inkscape after you edit something in there.
Oh, and there is a simple way to do a quick test to see if Inkscape's GTK is picking up your .gtkrc-2.0 changes. Just add this as the only thing in that file to see if some icons get bigger:
gtk-icon-sizes = "gtk-small-toolbar=48,48"
or this would give you some more extreme changes:
gtk-icon-sizes = "inkscape-decoration=80,80"